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An organophosphate insecticide that was banned in CA in 2019 following community-based lobbying efforts and negotiations with the CA Department of Pesticide Regulation
What is Chlorpyrifos?
Which four counties have the highest pesticide use in California? AND, how many pounds of pesticides were applied in these four counties in 2017? (Use Tracking CA)
What are Fresno, Kern, San Joaquin, and Tulare counties. What is 95 million lbs.
Agencies that are in charge of pesticide regulation within CA
What is the California Department of Pesticide Regulation and County Agricultural Commissioners?
What does CPR stand for?
Californians for Pesticide Reform
Three solutions to pesticide and groundwater regulation
What are stakeholder engagement, phasing out OP use, and prioritizing diversity and inclusion?
When groundwater use exceeds the amount of recharge into an aquifer, which leads to a decline in groundwater level.
What is overdraft?
How many pounds of 1,3-Dichloropropene were applied in Fresno County in 2017? (Use Tracking California)
What is 1,968,575 lbs
An act that requires all pesticides sold or distributed in the United States be registered by the EPA
What is The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (1910)?
Based on the information presented, how does HEAL Food Alliance engage community members in lobbying efforts and advocacy?
School of Political Leadership
Three pesticide classes used within the CV
What are OPs, Fumigants, and Organochlorines?
A condition when a baby's skin turns blue due to a decreased amount of hemoglobin in the blood.
What is Blue Baby Syndrome?
What categories does 1,3-Dichloropropene fall under? (Use Tracking California).
What are carcinogens, fumigants, and toxic air contaminants
An act that was passed in 1996 to ban most indoor uses of Organophosphate pesticides
What is the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996?
Three regional organizations working to regulate pesticides and promote safe drinking water within the CV
What are Californians for Pesticide Reform, Community Water Center, and Food and Water Watch?
What was the most heavily used pesticide in Tulare county in 2017 (Use Tracking California)?
What is mineral oil?
A cancer-causing agent
What is a carcinogenic?
How many contaminants have been identified in the Shafter, CA community water system (Kern County)? (Use Environmental Working Group Database)
What are 25 contaminants?
This gave power and impetus to the State Water Resources Control Board to set standards for water quality and other beneficial uses for California’s waters.
What is the Porter-Cologne Act?
Three barriers that Central Valley communities face in regulating pesticide use and drinking
What are lack of sufficient regulatory agencies, pull of the pesticide lobby, and inefficient state legislation?
What are three ways that pesticides impact ecosystem services?
Pesticides implicate the function and development of body systems, decrease life expectancy and bioaccumulate within aquatic and terrestrial species
The gradual accumulation of substances, such as pesticides or other chemicals, in an organism
What is bioaccumulation?
How many of these contaminants with Shafter, Ca surpass the Environmental Working Group’s “health guidelines”? (Use Environmental Working Group Tap Water Database)
What are 13 contaminants?
A bill that would establish the Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund to help water systems provide an adequate and affordable supply of safe drinking water.
What is Senate Bill 200?
Three health problems closely linked to pesticide drift
What are ASD, breast and thyroid cancer, and birth defects?
More than a billion pounds of this pesticide is used per year in CA?
What is chlorpyrifos?